• Microsoft Said to Adopt AMD Chips for Next Xbox Console and Microsoft planning Xbox event for May – Use of AMD chips will make it easier to developers for create games for both PCs and the Xbox. But older games won’t be compatible on the new machine, which could be unveiled at an event
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• Cyberattacks Abound Yet Companies Tell SEC Losses Are Few – Businesses say they’re being hit all the time by cyberattacks, but their not suffering many losses as a result. • How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com—without Apple’s OK – A small ISP appears to have teamed up with a company
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• Google publishes – then removes – a post stating that Fiber will launch in Austin, Texas next – There is an announcement by the City of Austin and Google scheduled for Tuesday. And Google Fiber coming to Austin? City government & Google holding a meeting next week to announce… something. • T-Mobile releases carrier
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• Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy – Om Malik argues that Facebook’s new Android layer, as announced Thursday on the new HTC First phone, couples location and personal information in a way not previously seen. With this phone, you have almost no privacy, he says. Also Mark Zuckerberg on
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